Disabling Expired Dates

[davemarsh]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for all your help so far, I'm really fine tuning this now and have a new question for you.

How do I make old dates unavailable for selection? Ie, today is the 10th Feb so i'd like everything before this date to automaitcally show as booked out (and therefore be unselectable). How would I go about doing this?

The booking form is here is here: http://www.waterhallcountryhouse.co.uk/bookings.html

Cheers,
Dave

[chris]

Similar questions to this have been asked (and anwsered) before in the forum.

Basicially you need to modify functions.inc.php so as to check the date being shown against the current date and "simply" not add the link if it is previous to the current day.

In this file somewhere towards the begining of the draw_cal() function add this line to define the current timestamp:

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$today_timestamp=   mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d'),date('Y'));

Then, down below within the loop that goes through each day of the month add this:

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if(CAL_START_DAY=="sun")      $date_timestamp =   mktime(0,0,0, $month,$day_counter,$year);
else                        $date_timestamp =   mktime(0,0,0, $month,($day_counter+1),$year);


(the loop in question starts like this: for($day_counter = 1; $day_counter <= $days_in_this_month; $day_counter++){

Finally you need to condition the links so that they will not be defined if the date is previous to today.
Currently in your version you have this:

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//   show ajax link or not
if($show_link==1){
  $day_link_start   ='<a href="#" onclick="ajax_mod_state(\''.$id.'\',\''.$this_date.'\',\''.$day_counter.'\',event); return false" title="'.$lang["modify_availability_for"].' '.$lang["day_".$week_day.""].' '. $date_format.'" class="cal_day">';
  $day_link_end   ='</a>';
}else{
  $day_link_start   ="";
  $day_link_end   ="";
}


You need to change that to this:

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$day_link_start   ="";
$day_link_end   ="";
if( $date_timestamp>=$today_timestamp){
  //   show ajax link or not
  if($show_link==1){
   $day_link_start   ='<a href="#" onclick="ajax_mod_state(\''.$id.'\',\''.$this_date.'\',\''.$day_counter.'\',event); return false" title="'.$lang["modify_availability_for"].' '.$lang["day_".$week_day.""].' '. $date_format.'" class="cal_day">';
   $day_link_end   ='</a>';
  }
}

That should be it.
You will see from this that I haven't actually done what you requested as regards making the previous days "appear" to be all booked as I am not convinced that that is really what you want.
However, if it is, you could add a condition so that if the date is previous to current, the image to be used is always the "booked" one (or create another one especially for the ocasion), something like this (following on from the previous "if" clause):

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}else{
  // show all previous days as booked
$day_image='cal_on_'.$day_counter.'.png';
}


Well, I hope you can follow these steps.

Chris

[chris]

he there,
Have you had a chance to make the changes to get this working?

Chris

[Lora]

I got this to work. It is a great option.

Thanks again,

Lora

[Matjan]

Hi Chris,

can you please tell me where to add these lines? I've tried a few combinations, but after uploading the functions.inc.php the calendar doesn't show. Can you have a look at the file and give me instructions?

[chris]

Hi,
I have taken a look at the file that you sent but can't see any of the changes outlined in the previous post.

Try making the changes that are outlined a couple of posts here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=71&p=949#p477
There are only a couple of things to do and if you follow the steps you should have no problems.

Chris